Some Mistakes of MosesCosimo, Inc., 1. jan. 2009 - 272 síður As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. First published in 1879, this audaciously titled volume is a collection of short essays challenging the concept of biblical inerrancy. Focusing on the first five books of the Bible, once popularly believed to have been written by Moses, Ingersoll highlights the savageries, absurdities, injustices, and scientific inaccuracies of the writings considered noble and true by so many. As enjoyable a read as it is a provocative one, this is the lost classic of a true American original. |
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... infinite Intelligence , Justice , and Mercy , by violating maidens and by butchering babes . To me it seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws ; and I endeavored in a lecture , entitled " Some Mistakes of Moses , " to ...
... infinite Intelligence , Justice , and Mercy , by violating maidens and by butchering babes . To me it seemed more reasonable that savage men had made these laws ; and I endeavored in a lecture , entitled " Some Mistakes of Moses , " to ...
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... infinite con- tempt , divided the world into enemies and friends , and verified the awful declaration of its founder - a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring , and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with ...
... infinite con- tempt , divided the world into enemies and friends , and verified the awful declaration of its founder - a declaration that wet with blood the sword he came to bring , and made the horizon of a thousand years lurid with ...
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... by impudent bigots , and should be at once repealed by honest men . An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself , without going in partnership with state legislatures . Certainly he ought not so 3 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 33.
... by impudent bigots , and should be at once repealed by honest men . An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself , without going in partnership with state legislatures . Certainly he ought not so 3 SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 33.
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... barbaric ancestors , but they have made none . Nearly all these religions are intensely selfish . Each one was made by some con- temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 39.
... barbaric ancestors , but they have made none . Nearly all these religions are intensely selfish . Each one was made by some con- temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite SOME MISTAKES OF MOSES . 39.
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Robert G. Ingersoll. temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance , and looked upon the other nations as beneath the notice of their god . In all these countries it was a crime to deny the sacred records ...
Robert G. Ingersoll. temptible little nation that regarded itself as of almost infinite importance , and looked upon the other nations as beneath the notice of their god . In all these countries it was a crime to deny the sacred records ...
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TUESDAY | 63 |
WEDNESDAY | 67 |
THE Garden | 121 |
THE FALL | 128 |
DAmpness | 138 |
BACCHUS AND BABEL | 169 |
FAITH IN FILTH | 176 |
THE HEBREWS | 181 |
THE PLAGUES | 190 |
THE FLIGHT | 210 |
THURSDAY | 72 |
HE MADE THE STARS Also | 81 |
FRIDAY | 84 |
SATURDAY | 87 |
LET US MAKE MAN | 92 |
SUNDAY ΙΟΙ XV THE NECESSITY FOR A GOOD MEMORY | 108 |
CONFESS AND AVOID | 241 |
INSPIRED SLAVERY | 245 |
INSPIRED Marriage | 250 |
INSPIRED War | 253 |
INSPIRED RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | 256 |
CONCLUSION | 262 |
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